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  • Marjorie Taylor Green, Tucker Carlson, Donald TrumpLeadership

    Tucker Carlson and Don Lemon’s firings were about corporate profits, not a victory for truth in journalism, media scholar says

    By Nolan Higdon and The Conversation
  • Peanut butterLifestyle

    A thermal scientist explains why TSA will confiscate your peanut butter before you get on an airplane—because it is a liquid

    By Ted Heindel and The Conversation
  • A chart of prices in the “Prom Index” compared to CPI.Finance

    An economist who’s been tracking ‘prom inflation’ since his daughter went 9 years ago is surprised by what he’s found

    By Jay L. Zagorsky and The Conversation
  • Greg BeckerFinance

    The economists who studied the tweets that predated the SVB bank run and implosion reveal how social media fuels financial panic

    By Tony Cookson, Christoph Schiller, and others
  • Jerry Springer ShowLifestyle

    Jerry Springer may not have been the first to use the [bleeping] bleep sound, but a media historian says he made it iconic

    By Matthew Jordan and The Conversation
  • Young woman doing grocery shopping in supermarket. Plastic bottle mockup for packaging design.Health

    Cancer-causing toxins are in shampoos, body lotions, and cleaning products. Here’s what experts want you to know

    By Robin Dodson, Ruthann Rudel, and others
  • Abstract image of a holographic human AI robot with flowing binary on dark blue background.Tech

    A Stanford professor who specializes in A.I. says it’s redefining ‘authenticity’ and it could be as revolutionary as the calculator

    By Victor R. Lee and The Conversation
  • Kareem Abdul-Jabbar and Robert HaysFinance

    What all the conflicting data says about a ‘soft landing’ for the economy—and what it doesn’t

    By Christopher Decker and The Conversation
  • Jerome PowellFinance

    3 economic historians explain how the SVB report and First Republic’s near collapse show that incentives, risk and greed are universal truths

    By Alexandra Digby, Dollie Davis, and others
  • Air JordanLifestyle

    The ‘Air’ movie never shows Michael Jordan’s face. It says a lot about America’s commodification of Black bodies.

    By A. Joseph Dial and The Conversation
  • NEW YORK – APRIL 1988: American author Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. (1922 – 2007) poses for a photo in April 1988 at a party for the 25th anniversary of Elaine’s restaurant in New York City, New York. (Photo by Catherine McGann/Getty Images)Success

    Kurt Vonnegut dominated college graduation speeches because he was an offbeat voice of reason and unlikely youth hero

    By Susan Farrell and The Conversation
  • Men use smartphones to social media on vacation at home, use social media to talk to social distancing ,Working From Home concept.Tech

    I’ve been studying what social media does to people’s brains for years—and it creates a ‘cognitive overload’ that makes you easy prey for advertisers

    By Matthew Pittman and The Conversation
  • teenager of colorMind

    America’s teens of color are transforming digital activism: ‘With this generation, we are not going to wait’

    By Dominique Skye McDaniel and The Conversation
  • UYUNI, BOLIVIA – AUGUST 14: A worker hands a shovel to his colleague who is inside a salt recovery pool at the Llipi pilot Plant in the Uyuni Salt Flats on August 14, 2022 in Uyuni, Bolivia. The Uyuni Salt Flats, in the Potosi province, have the largest lithium reserves in the world. In 2008, former president Evo Morales nationalized the industry of lithium and then created the state-run company Yacimientos de Litio Bolivianos (YLB). Despite announcements and promises, extraction and export volumes never reached significant levels due to lack of investments and technology. Now the Bolivian government is working on strategic partnerships with foreign firms to boost the extraction of the so-called “white gold” or “petroleum of the 21st century”, key to produce batteries and electric vehicles. (Photo by Gaston Brito Miserocchi/Getty Images)Environment

    Bolivia is sitting on a goldmine of lithium but it’s setting up an ideological collision between modern society and indigenous religious views

    By Mario Orospe Hernández and The Conversation
  • SpaceX rocketTech

    Why the explosion of Elon Musk’s SpaceX rocket was a ‘very successful failure,’ from a space policy guru who works for the Air Force

    By Wendy Whitman Cobb and The Conversation